Promoting/Archiving Google Classrooms at the end of the year.

[Mkenyon]

During the pandemic we all went online, lucky we had locker connect installed and created all our Google Classes directly from Sims and we have happily used Google Classrooms since (Most resources are now in Classroom).

 

Now the question is has anyone experience of how to do end of year?

 

Do we:

Archive all classes and then create new classes for the new year? (Teachers would be able to re-use posts from the previous year)

 

Or

Simply rename the Google Classroom from 10Tc to 11Tc keeping all work and assessment scores?

 

Or

Go to a Classroom template model were HODs create a template Classroom with all resources then copy it out (Only really works for year 7 & 8 who are taught in form groups mainly)

 

Or

Any other suggestions?

 

I would be keen to speak to anyone who went through the process last year and the route they chose, pros cons etc as I would like to give SLT options before they put the question to middle leaders.

 

Background is:

All boys High school

Windows

Google G Suite

Sims/ Moving to Arbor in the summer

Locker Connect as our MIS integration with Google.

[fiza]

We use Salamander which does similar to Locker. Salamander creates new classes each year and it is up to the Teachers to archive the old classes. Salamander automatically moves the students out of the old classes and promotes them to the new ones so really only the Teachers can still see their old classes. Teachers also have the new classes added based on what is in the MIS.

[Chaniel]

We use Salamander which makes new classes each academic year with the year at the start (e.g. 2020-11CSc) based on our MIS.

 

All of the classes in a year are managed by a certain account, we use GAM to archive all the classes owned by that account at the end of the year. Teachers can then still find them and reuse posts and this has been working fine for a few years now.

 

With GAM I would print all the courses of a user

gam print courses teacher  state active todrive

I'd then download as a CSV and archive them all;

gam csv  gam update course ~id state Archived